Our District Nurses

Sir - All over this country we have monuments, bridges, streets, buildings, and railway stations named after people who deserved to be recognised and remembered. But there is one group of people who are never honoured and deserve to be honoured.

Sir - All over this country we have monuments, bridges, streets, buildings, and railway stations named after people who deserved to be recognised and remembered. But there is one group of people who are never honoured and deserve to be honoured.

This is the District Nurse. They save hundreds of lives every year with their dedication, love, affection, comfort, cure, hope, help - and ease suffering of patients.

Some of the things they do save GP visits and people going into hospitals, which saves them from spending days and nights on hospital trolleys, or in nursing homes, and keeps them in their own homes and saves the country millions of euro every year.

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